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[craig at postnewspapers.com.au]

> > This frustrates me no end as I work at a newspaper. F**ING Quark isn't
> > even available for MacOS X yet :-(
> If it was, 'twould be a relatively tiny step from there to a Linux/*BSD 
> version.
Maybe. Nobody has actually _done_ this yet, and remember that OSX has
2 different APIs. One to run MacOS 9 apps with minimal modification and
one "native" API that is, I gather, more similar to UNIX but with a new
API for the MacOS X GUI, etc.

I'm not claiming to be an authority, but I think this is the gist of it.

Quark will of course use the old API rather than rewriting for the new
one. A port would probably require an implementation of the MacOS APIs
for linux...

Anybody a Mac developer who can correct me on this?

-- 
Craig Ringer
IT Manager
POST Newspapers
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